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NNUH Diabetes Team Update - Spring 2019

I started as a consultant with the Diabetes Team NNUHFT
in Norwich in September 2018 and I wanted to take this
opportunity to thank you all for the incredibly warm welcome
you have given to me. The whole team appreciates the
support the NDDYG offers, not only to all of the young
people and their families with Type 1 diabetes in our care,
but also to us as clinicians supporting them.

Everyone knows that the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is daunting;
being able to put young people in touch with people of their own
age and similarly affected families has a real positive impact.
I understand from the NDDYG that they are in need of new
committee members to enable them to continue their good
work, please if you are reading this and think you may be able
to join the team DO!

We have lots of exciting developments in the Diabetes Team. We
are rolling out a new patient education program later this year with
some really lovely resources to support learning according to key
stage ability. We are introducing pre-clinic questionnaires to ensure
that we cover what you want to talk about in your appointments.
We are hoping that more and more of you will help us to keep
to time in clinic by uploading your meter/pump/pod to Diasend
before clinic. Whilst we continue to measure HbA1C we are also
talking about time in target (4-7mmol/L) as we know that with more
time in target long term outcomes are improved.

We are hoping to start some young people on partial closed loop pumps this year;
these have been shown to significantly increase time in target.
Please feedback on the service we provide via the national
anonymised PREM survey. We are going to use the IPADS you
kindly donated to enable you to fill the survey whilst waiting to see
us in clinic. You can also fill it in at home at
http://howarewedoing2018-19.co.uk